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Panama Negotiating More Flights to U.S.
United Airlines is interested in adding direct flights between Panama’s Tocumen International Airport and San Francisco, New Jersey, and Houston with operations to begin by the end of 2012. Original...
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Best, Cheap Travel Destinations: Nicaragua and Mexico
Your bank account is nearly empty, but wanderlust has set in and you’re desperate to get away. How can you pull off your dream vacation? Try Mexico, which has suffered from a run of drug-related...
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Belize Pledges $30 Million Toward Infrastructure in Seven Strategic Areas
The Belize Municipal Development project, estimated at $30 million, aims to provide needed infrastructure to seven major municipalities in the country. A $2.2 million street project, which seeks to...
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El Salvador Too Broke to Pay Income Tax Returns
The Salvadorian government is without the funds to pay its income tax returns. The head of the Ministry of Finance confirmed that there are still more than $30 million worth of outstanding income tax...
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Nicaragua Zoo Offers Pet Lion Ownership for $35,000
Have you ever wanted to own a pet lion, but your wife won’t let you keep a 500-pound cat of prey in the house? Well, Nicaragua’s national zoo is offering the next best thing. For a slight sponsorship...
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Costa Rica Wants Its Own Dry Canal, Courts China for Funding
Costa Rica is after China for its money. The country hopes the Asian nation will offer funding to build a dry canal in Costa Rica. The plan is to build two road extensions that will allow for the...
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Again! Quito Airport Opening Pushed Back
Ecuador has delayed the opening of Quito’s new international airport. Why? Officials say the airport lacks direct access for both passengers and cargo to its new location across the city, along with...
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Ecuador’s Top 10 Destinations Attractions
If Julian Assange makes it to Ecuador, he won’t be short of travel options. This country packs an astonishing array of landscapes, wildlife, and indigenous cultures into an area the size of Britain....
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Panama Fails to Fill Hotel Rooms
Despite a rise in visitors, Panamanian hotel occupancy rates continue to slide downward. This is due to the continuous addition of new hotels, with most of the beds being added unoccupied. The problem...
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Mexican Resort Tries Again to Build in Cabo Pulmo Despite Renewed Protests
Developers have resurrected plans for a massive beach resort near a sensitive coral reef in Mexico’s Gulf of California, just two months after authorities rejected a similar plan amid protests by...
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Panama Announces Major Reforms to Improve Competitiveness
The government of Panama has announced a package of 30 pro-competitive reforms implemented in the last year, all of which aim to improve the ease of doing business in the country. Original Article Text...
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Hopes Rest on Ecuador’s Revolutionary Yasuni Conservation Model
A plan to preserve the most biodiverse region on Earth from oil exploitation has put Yasuni National Park at the front line of a global battle between living systems and fossil fuels. But enthusiasm is...
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Deforestation Pushes Nicaragua’s Bosawas Forests Toward Extinction
Approximately every hour a track of land the size of a football field falls victim to deforestation in Nicaragua. If the tree cutting continues at this pace, the largest biosphere reserve in Central...
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Ecuador Resets Limits on Wire Transfers, Adds New Taxes
Ecuadorians who make wire transfers of up to $1000 will now be taxed on these operations. Prior laws exempted amounts under $1000, but government estimates show close to $40 million in tax payments...
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Mexican Archaeologists Protest Saying Historic Sites Cannot Handle Massive...
Travelers are drawn to Mexico as 2012 hype grows and Mexican officials must choose between preserving the country’s past or risk ruining the pyramids and monuments to make a profit from tourism...
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Caribbean Side of Costa Rica Begins Cultural Tourism Campaign
Costa Rica has long been able to attract its fair share of visitors, but now the Caribbean side of the country wants its piece of the tourism pie too and has initiated a tourism campaign aimed at...
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U.S. Tourists Numbers Growing in Central America
Central America is the fastest growing travel destination for Americans, where a total of 1 million U.S. passengers visited Central America, 15% more compared to the same period in 2011. Original...
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Do the Booming Economies of Latin America Have What It Takes to Keep Up the...
Economies are booming in Latin America. Mexico – the new darling of foreign investors – is outstripping GDP forecasts, while the rest of Latin America expect slower but still solid growth, and some...
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Panamanian Indigenous Pitted Against United Nations
A dispute over the implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) in Panama has pitted the United Nations (UN) against the nation’s diverse and large indigenous groups...
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Salvadoran Business Group Invests $15 Million in New Honduran Hotel Construction
A Salvadoran group will invest $15 million in the construction of two new hotels in the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa. Original Article Text From El Salvador via Google Translate : Invest $ 15 Mill...
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